1931 Old Waldorf Bar Days by Albert Stevens Crockett

PART VII Drunk at the OldWaldorf Bar F OR THE convenience of students of the cultural his– tory and mores of the American people, to whom the significance of the names, if not their composition, may furnish material for research, the bibulous concoctions long known and served at the Bar of the 'old Waldorf have been arranged alphabetically, and in two classes. The cocktails have been set down in one list and the others, which might be classed as "beverages," though that title might be open ·llo dispute, have been termed "Fancy Potations and Otherwise." Were this a book of instruction, some discussion of ways and means, which might be of value, would per– haps not be out of order-particularly the latter. That would involve further classification, as well. But one believes that sufficient has been said in Part I to stim– ulate earnest seekers into wherefores and hows up to tracing the origins of many of the names, and assigning them to their historical periods. As for effects-well, one who glances carefully over the lists will discover that [IIJ]